Teamsters leader compares GOP to Cambodian dictator
Source: Detroit News
September 13, 2012 at 6:17 pm
Teamsters leader compares GOP to Cambodian dictator
By David Shepardson
Detroit News Washington Bureau
Washington Teamsters President James Hoffa on Thursday compared the Republican Party to genocidal Cambodian leader Pol Pot and likened the tea party to the John Birch Society.
In remarks before the National Press Club, the fiery Detroit-born leader in his fourth term of running the 1.4-million member union also said the future of organized labor is at stake.
He said the GOP at its national convention in Tampa, Fla., two weeks ago didn't talk about "what they really believe in" or highlight former leaders like President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
"The Republicans are rewriting history," Hoffa said, saying the party is ignoring Bush's eight years in office. "There is no eight years. There was no recession. There were no wars. Nothing ever happened during those eight years."
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PatrynXX
(5,668 posts)They have nothing to do with safety. They care very little or not at all about part time help which companies can't function without. So we end up working 24/7 and they get the break. So he can do that then ask where Jimmy Hoffa is. Any other union, I'll be rooting for.
maratmuradyan
(10 posts)samsingh
(17,601 posts)The Wizard
(12,547 posts)I said the same thing two weeks ago and was chastised for being over the top.
Suji to Seoul
(2,035 posts)and I'm told I know nothing about politics, government or public policy.
It's normal. When caught in a moment of being out-smarted, those who are caught usually just attack the messenger, not the message.